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eBooks - Allied Health Assistance
Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners. (2019)
Equips you with the knowledge to provide the safest and most effective patient care possible; provides evidence-based guidelines to ensure best practice that is matched to the National Occupational Standards and the Care Certificate; includes new chapters on administering injections, ear irrigation and examining the feet of people with diabetes, and an entirely rewritten chapter on protocols.
Organise Ideas: Thinking by Hand, Extending the Mind (2021)
Over 35 such word-diagrams are: organised into a system to help select the right tool for the job; described for rapid understanding of their strengths; and explained for step-by-step construction.Over 50 teachers each have a double-page spread in which they reveal how they use them in their teaching -- across the full age range and span of subjects.
The book demonstrates how to use these word-diagrams most effectively by partnering them with other teaching strategies, such as retrieval practice, writing, speaking and listening, teacher explanations, advance organisers, scaffolding, remote learning and more.
Websites
NSW - Allied Health - Education & Training
Look at the Training in delegation practices.
The Allied Health Unit at HETI provides a central source of leadership and coordination of education and training for the NSW Health allied health
professional workforce. To ensure high-quality evidenced-based care, the Allied Health Unit works with key allied health stakeholders to develop education and training that is clinically meaningful, relevant and responsive to the allied health role and specialty.
NSW - Clinical Supervision - The Superguide
The Superguide is a user friendly handbook designed to assist allied health professionals who are responsible for supervising other staff. It gives tips and suggestions based on published evidence of what makes good supervision and the knowledge of many experienced allied health supervisors in NSW.
NSW - Workplace Learning
The Learning Guide is a user friendly handbook designed to provide allied health professionals with practical guidelines to facilitate clinical education and learning in the workplace. This guide provides information based upon published evidence that supports effective methods of promoting education, learning needs and professional development of allied health professionals working in clinical settings.
Queensland Health - Assistants and Delegation
The Office of the Chief Allied Health Officer (OCAHO) has developed, or commissioned development of, a number of resources to guide and support the implementation of safe and effective delegation practice in Queensland Health teams.
Queensland Health - Foundations of Delegation Training Package
Training in delegation practices
Foundations of delegation is a training package developed in partnership with the OCAHO and Griffith University. The program has been designed to enhance the effectiveness of delegation practices between allied health professionals and allied health assistants working together in clinical teams.
This training should be used in conjunction with, and support, the local delegation framework - see Allied Health Assistants and Delegation.
Queensland Health - Publications and Resources
All other Allied Health publications including reports, guidelines and training resources, can be found below.
If there is a particular resources or publication you require not listed here please contact the OCAHO.
iLA - Resources & Research - Making Choices, Finding Solutions.
Your guide to assistive equipment and home modification options for safety, independence, and wellbeing.
iLA created the Making Choices, Finding Solutions Guide in partnership with the WA Home and Community Care Program.
iLA - Hilary O'Connell - Reablement in Long-Term Care for Older People
If you’re looking for some advice, Hilary suggests “starting small and starting today. Don’t put off making a lifestyle change and build up slowly”. “Use it or lose it” certainly rings true where Hilary is concerned.
Liveup - Everyday tips - What is assistive technology?
Assistive products maintain or improve an individual’s functioning and independence, thereby promoting their wellbeing.’ - World Health Organisation
Keepable
Compiled by a team of dedicated professionals, KeepAble is an online collaborative hub for practical content and free resources that supports home and community care service providers to deliver wellness and reablement approaches.
Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners. (2019)
Equips you with the knowledge to provide the safest and most effective patient care possible; provides evidence-based guidelines to ensure best practice that is matched to the National Occupational Standards and the Care Certificate; includes new chapters on administering injections, ear irrigation and examining the feet of people with diabetes, and an entirely rewritten chapter on protocols.
Organise Ideas: Thinking by Hand, Extending the Mind (2021)
Over 35 such word-diagrams are: organised into a system to help select the right tool for the job; described for rapid understanding of their strengths; and explained for step-by-step construction.Over 50 teachers each have a double-page spread in which they reveal how they use them in their teaching -- across the full age range and span of subjects.
The book demonstrates how to use these word-diagrams most effectively by partnering them with other teaching strategies, such as retrieval practice, writing, speaking and listening, teacher explanations, advance organisers, scaffolding, remote learning and more.